[Vo]:Fwd: update on Walter Owens electrostatic power converter

2007-10-16 Thread Todd Hathaway
fyi -- http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Electrostatic_Generator_by_Walter_Owens_and_Company

Re: [Vo]:New cheap wind generator, inspired by blade of grass

2007-10-16 Thread Harry Veeder
A stringed instrument in the symphony of power generation. Harry On 16/10/2007 7:37 AM, OrionWorks wrote: This looks promising and cheap to build. http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/10/turbine-free-wi.html Works efficiently (no bearings) in extremely light wind conditions as well. They

Re: [Vo]:New CE5 Video

2007-10-16 Thread Terry Blanton
Not unless it's properly earthed. I don't see the ground. Terry On 10/16/07, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hold onto your hats ... We are getting close to Wonderland, Alice To silence the skeptics, Dr. Stiffler has just now added the Faraday cage to his circuit

Re: [Vo]:Liquid metal

2007-10-16 Thread David Jonsson
Right, but wetting does not look like a problem. I was thinking on good rotating parabolic mirrors and MHD applications. It came to my mind that dynamo effects and effects from Earth's magnetic field would alter the shape of the mirror. Galinstan is practically too expensive to buy. It sells in

RE: [Vo]:New CE5 Video

2007-10-16 Thread EnergyLab
Terry It is grounded, but the meaning of 'Properly' is open to interpretation. If I myself were to question grounding I would have to go back to my early days in radio. I had an FM site in an old Nike underground bunker. This bunker had 2x2 brass buss bars running crisscross through. The bars

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: update on Walter Owens electrostatic power converter

2007-10-16 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Todd Hathaway wrote: fyi -- http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Electrostatic_Generator_by_Walter_Owens_and_Company http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Electrostatic_Generator_by_Walter_Owens_and_Company He's producing AC power through an inverter, from the output of a

Re: [Vo]:New CE5 Video

2007-10-16 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Terry Blanton wrote: Not unless it's properly earthed. I don't see the ground. Time for a dumb question... An ungrounded Faraday cage doesn't block a static E-field caused by a source inside the cage, of course. It can't, because it would need to be non-neutral to cancel the static

Re: [Vo]:New CE5 Video

2007-10-16 Thread Terry Blanton
On 10/16/07, EnergyLab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what would you call a proper ground? A low enough resistance to earth so that the potential remaining on the surface of the Faraday cage could not possibly be supplying the circuit. (Smartass answer) I would suggest a tie to building steel

Re: [Vo]:Fwd: update on Walter Owens electrostatic power converter

2007-10-16 Thread R.C.Macaulay
Stephen wrote.. I'd bet a box of donuts this is one more example of same. A nice quote from the peswiki page that kind of says it all: ...he presently does not have a running prototype, as he was working on the next improvement. The previous unit was burning up batteries... Howdy

RE: [Vo]:New CE5 Video

2007-10-16 Thread EnergyLab
Okay, but herein is the rub, (again my radio days) its not resistance its reactance. Zero ohms and 107 gets you close to a 1/4 wave in the old CB band. When I talk about ground loops I'm speaking of different lengths of a particular ground circuit that are terminated in different impedances and

RE: [Vo]:New CE5 Video

2007-10-16 Thread Hoyt A. Stearns Jr.
The Faraday cage won't block time varying magnetic fields, I suggest a mumetal shield as well. Hoyt Stearns Scottsdale Arizona US http://HoytStearns.com -Original Message- From: Stephen A. Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 10:42 AM To:

Re: [Vo]:New CE5 Video

2007-10-16 Thread OrionWorks
Assuming there is sufficient material available to build all the necessary components could one not construct multiple arrays (I'm probably using incorrect terminology here) in order to multiply the power. The objective would be to increase the amount of power that is being recorded to the point

[Vo]:updated trend statistics

2007-10-16 Thread Todd Hathaway
See http://green-salon.com/Trend_Tracker.doc - it is real time data, with absolutely nothing in place to shift gears away from a hyperinflationary cycle and a catastrophically degraded environment...except a solution to our dependency on hydrocarbon fuels. Perhaps it is time for folks to stop

Re: [Vo]:New CE5 Video

2007-10-16 Thread Jones Beene
First off - the ground thing is not a factor, as the good Doctor says. Were talking 50 milliwatts to power the LED to that brightness, right? Well, the new feature here, even newer than a few days ago, is the *double* open-ended system, with no transistor Two unconnected wires, instead

Re: [Vo]:New CE5 Video

2007-10-16 Thread Terry Blanton
On 10/16/07, Jones Beene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surprised Terry has not jumped in on a replication yet... Hey aren't ramblin' wrecks supposed to enjoy this kind of thing ... and speaking of one-wire antennas and (makeshift) capacitors, all Terry needs to do is re-rig his multi-plate Don

[Vo]:energy products company

2007-10-16 Thread thomas malloy
This company claims to have some interesting energy production products, can anyone comment on their efficacy. http://www.inri.us --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! ---

[Vo]:Failure of Fire

2007-10-16 Thread Terry Blanton
Brian Josephson on CF :-) http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/articles/PF_fire.html Terry

Re: [Vo]:energy products company

2007-10-16 Thread R.C.Macaulay
Thomas wrote.. This company claims to have some interesting energy production products, can anyone comment on their efficacy. http://www.inri.us Howdy Thomas, Obvious they have little offshore experience. Harsh ocean environments are killers of anything that moves, rusts or gathers

Re: [Vo]:energy products company

2007-10-16 Thread Horace Heffner
On Oct 16, 2007, at 2:26 PM, thomas malloy wrote: This company claims to have some interesting energy production products, can anyone comment on their efficacy. http://www.inri.us This alternative looks good to me: http://www.oceanpowertechnologies.com/ Other things to consider: